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Akayev will discuss the crisis first through a global perspective, then focus on its impact in the Eurasia region. Though the crisis poses a major challenge that all countries are trying to cope with, Akayev says recent historical events have left Eurasia not economically integrated with the rest of the world. But, he adds, the region has a privileged location in terms of its economic potential and natural and human resources.

The former president will also call attention to the fact that Eurasian countries that have always had close social, scientific, cultural and economic relations in the past are now following foreign economic development strategies, mostly those coming from the United States. Akayev believes that countries such as China, Russia and India will get out of the crisis quickly.